Arnold Bennett
Mental Efficiency
Read by Ruth Golding
In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life…
How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day
Read by Mark F. Smith
"Which of us lives on twenty-four hours a day? And when I say 'lives,' I do not mean exists, nor 'muddles through.'" -- Arnold Ben…
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day (version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given y…
The Human Machine
Read by Ruth Golding
Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. A…
Self and Self-management: Essays about Existing
Read by Ruth Golding
Bennett's essays always provide food for thought and bring a wry smile to the lips. Human nature, it appears, changes little over the ages, …
The Grand Babylon Hotel
Read by Anna Simon
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …
The Old Wives' Tale
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance …
Ghost Story Collection 003
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A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…
The Card
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginning…
Buried Alive
Read by Simon Evers
The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies …
Enterrado en Vida
Read by Victor Villarraza
Arnold Bennett escribió Enterrado en vida después de su obra más conocida y seria, Cuento de viejas, y siempre la consi…
Tales of the Five Towns
Read by Martin Clifton
This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of t…
The Pretty Lady
Read by Simon Evers
‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christi…
The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy
Read by Simon Evers
The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor…
The Regent
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…
Literary Taste: How to Form It
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
The Price of Love
Read by Christine Blachford
Rachel Louise Fleckring works for the elderly Mrs Maldon, and although with the woman for only a short time, she is taken into the heart of …
The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, mainly set in the 'Five Towns', Bennett's name for the pottery manufacturing towns of the Englis…
Short Story Collection Vol. 008
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 008: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.
These Twain
Read by Simon Evers
Hilda is saved from destitution by Edwin Clayhanger who marries her. The two, with Hilda's son by her disastrous 'marriage' to George Cannon…
Christmas Short Works Collection 2007
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LibriVox’s 2007 Christmas Short Works Collection containing public domain short stories, essays, poems, and scripture passages recorded by a…
Hilda Lessways
Read by Simon Evers
This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story …
Lilian
Read by Simon Evers
Lilian works in a typewriting office owned by Felix Grig, a middle-aged man of means. The office is run by his spinster sister, Miss Grig, w…
The Roll-Call
Read by Simon Evers
"The Roll-Call" is the sequel to the Clayhanger trilogy. This book concerns the young life of Clayhanger's stepson, George. George…
Mr. Prohack
Read by Simon Evers
Mr Prohack, an ordinary official in the Treasury and leading a hum-drum life, suddenly and unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money which,…
Anna of the Five Towns
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The plot centers on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire…
A Great Man: a Frolic
Read by Simon Evers
Subtitled 'A Frolic', this light-hearted book follows the fortunes of Henry Shakespeare Knight who, rather to his own surprise, writes a bes…
Clayhanger
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This first of a trilogy of novels is a coming-of-age story set in the Midlands of Victorian England, following Edwin Clayhanger as he leaves…
The Feast of St. Friend
Read by Ruth Golding
In The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas book, Arnold Bennett shares his views on Christmas as the season of goodwill. As always, Bennett's w…
Short Story Collection Vol. 017
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 017: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.
Clayhanger (Version 2)
Read by Simon Evers
A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, …
The Loot Of Cities
Read by David Wales
Published in 1917, this is a collection of a novella and seven short stories by one of the cleverest authors of the early twentieth century.…
Short Story Collection Vol. 054
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 054: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Leonora
Read by Simon Evers
Leonora Stanway is 40 and lives a comfortable middle-class life with her unsympathetic and dull husband, John. Her three daughters are rapid…
Riceyman Steps
Read by Anthony Ogus
Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in…
Helen with the High Hand
Read by Simon Evers
James Ollerenshaw is a middle-aged, wealthy bachelor who lives in Bursley, one of the Five Towns. A chance encounter with Helen, his great s…
Short Works on Sports Collection 01
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A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The col…
One-Act Play Collection 003
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This collection of ten one-act dramas features plays by Edward Goodman, Alice Gerstenberg, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, Anton Chekhov, F…
One-Act Play Collection 006
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This collection includes ten one-act plays by David Belasco, Arnold Bennett, Hereward Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Lord Dunsany, John Galswort…
The Grim Smile Of The Five Towns
Read by David Wales
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns (1907) is the second major collection of stories written by Arnold Bennett. (The first is Tales Of The Five…
Over There: War Scenes On The Western Front
Read by David Wales
Bennett's served in many capacities in the WWI war effort. After a visit to the Western Front he wrote this 1915 collection of essays about …
The Old Adam
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Edward Henry Machin, whose rise from humble beginnings to prosperity was told in 'The Card', leads a comfortable life in the English Midland…
Short Story Collection Vol. 092
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This collection of short stories in the English Language brings another rich compendium of old favorites fro Lord Dunsany, Guy de Maupassant…
One-Act Play Collection 007
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LibriVox’s One-Act Play Collection 007 includes one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.Project BC: Michele…
First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. I
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This collection of non-fiction and fiction, with its companion poetry collection, commemorates the outbreak of the First World War on 28th J…
Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories
Read by David Wales
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular wi…
Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit
Read by David Wales
Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…
A Christmas Miscellany 2020
Read by David Wales
Nine stories, chapters, or essays about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by David Wales
Anna Of The Five Towns
Classic Serial, Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns Episode 1 of 2 Arnold Bennett's powerful story of love, tyranny and rebe…
Love Stories Volume 5
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Here are 20 more love stories under an hour each, offered by LibriVox volunteers, covering all kinds of experiences involving romance or oth…
LibriVox 10th Anniversary Collection
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This year is the 10th anniversary of our beloved LibriVox and to celebrate, readers have found and recorded 100 items with a connection to t…
A Man from the North
Read by Simon Evers
Richard Larch, a young man from the north of England, arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has…
LibriVox 9th Anniversary Collection
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This year is the 9th anniversary of our illustrious community, and readers have found and recorded 99 items with a connection with the numbe…
Arnold Bennett Buried Alive
Saturday-Night Theatre: Buried Alive Arnold Bennett’s 1912 novel Dramatised by James Duckett Sat 11th Mar 1972, 20:30 on …
Christmas Short Works Collection 2013
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A selection of poems, short stories and other prose for the Christmas season in English, Finnish and German.
A Christmas Miscellany 2021
Read by David Wales
Seven chapters involving Christmas from different books. Plus part 8 which is twelve verses about Christmas and part 9 which is four Christm…
Sacred and Profane Love
Read by Simon Evers
Carlotta Peel is an unusual young woman – clever, self-opinionated, a brilliant author and yearning to love and be loved but also to serve h…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 092
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Calling men the "Bawling Brotherhood," Sarah Grand penned a lively essay on The New Aspect of the Woman Question in 1894. Stenogra…
My Religion
Read by David Wales
This 1926 collection of sixteen essays on religion by well-known people (mostly authors) in the early 20th century brings together articles …